America's largest home-improvement retailer, Home Depot, is hiring more than 80,000 seasonal workers to meet the demand during the spring selling season.

The hiring matches the hiring level last year but Home Depot said it will cut the number of workers it plans to hire in Canada to 5,500 from last year's 6,300 associates.

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The American retailer of home improvement and construction products and services said the available jobs will include both permanent part-time and seasonal positions and will range from cashier to online order taker.

Home Depot executive vice president of human resources, Tim Crow, said more than half of the retailer's spring seasons workers typically stay.

Home Depot operates 2,269 stores in all 50 states in the US and has more than 300,000 employees and 2,269 stores across the U.S., Canada and Mexico.

While most retailers consider the holiday shopping season as their busiest seasons, Home Depot and other home-improvement stores capitalize on the spring selling season as consumers buy tools to work on their homes or spruce up their lawns and gardens.

The seasonal workers that will be hired this spring will be provided with Web-enabled devices to speed checkout and help find products, check stocks or explain product features to customers.

"That will make workers more productive," said Crow.

Last November, the retailer announced that its Q3 profit increased 14 percent due to rising sales, which suggests that the data breach that affected about 55 million credit and debit cards did not shake its customers' confidence.

The hearings for the Home Depot data breach was launched in January in front of an Atlanta federal judge.

Home Depot faces at least 44 civil lawsuits stemming from a massive data breach it revealed in September.  A reported 56 million customers' credit and debit card numbers, and 53 million e-mail addresses, were exposed. 

Several lawsuits contend that Home Depot knew its data security was not adequate to defend against hack attacks.

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